Eliel Saarinen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
-- Eliel Saarinen

#Cities #House #Design
Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
-- Eliel Saarinen

#Art #Desire #Demand
Architectural-form equals social-form
-- Eliel Saarinen

#Social #Form
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.
-- Eliel Saarinen

#Design #Next #Considering

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May â€˜43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in â€˜42 - even in my position. This aircraft didnâ€™t have any priority in design or production.
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦

Eliel Saarinen famous quotes

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